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The Seaforth News, 1947-06-26, Page 6Best insurance 'By BEND SUTER, IONTFIAN LANGDON waited patiently behind the diamond counter its McLaughton's jewelry store. He was one of the store's oldest clerks,• quiet, dependable, effi- cient- He was pondering over some- thing this morning and his fellow clerk, .Philip Smart, in charge of the watdh repair section, ,speedily ob- served it, -"1'm wondering about the old man," began Langdon. "For the life of me I don't see why we had to take out theft insurance. We've managed without it a11 the years I've been here and nothing has been taken yet. Burglar insurance, of eoursc. But wily spend money to protect yourself against theft out of the store when he must realize what a smart bunch he has toiling for him? Why couldn't he put that money to better usage by slipping me the 'raise I asked for?" "1 guess it was that glib insurance salesman he fel for," replied Philip. "Sure enough, still 1 think the old man is wasting good money—" The •interruption was caused by the en- trance of a customer, This was a porgy, middle aged gentleman, immaculately dressed, who would have made an Impression anywhere. Langdon greeted him with his most gracious smile. . "1 want something in. a two carat solitaire, the very best yon have in the place. 1! is for sny daughter, and want it as a graduation present!" Langdon hurried to the safe and brought out a tray of sparkling beauties. Mr. Blake gazed upon them carefully one by one and finally selected one. Langdon wentback and put the rest of the tray of rings in the safe. "Just let me run up to the hotel and get my cheep book. You keep this stone out till 1 get back." Ten, 15, then 20 minutes elapsed and the customer had not returned to complete the purchase. Just then the door of 1ticLaughton's. office opened, "Well, Jonathan," he began, "I' presume you still think t, - do not need any insurafice and that I should use that part of our budget towards giving ythi a ,raise?" "Well, yes, ` 1 do think so 'rellly. You know my sales have almost doubled in the last year. "That it true, Jonathan, and I appreciate it. Yet you must, consider that in selling diamonds, the store is taking, chances. 1 don't mean in a hold-up or, a burglary. But, just suppose some smooth artist came in here and got away with a valuable diamggnd." "Oh! but tliey couldn't do that with me," returned Lan g d o n promptly. "I've been here 10 years and no crook has ever gotten away with it, yet." "That's .what you think," smiled McLaughton. "Now take that last customer. I' watched everything frons the start. You, of coarse, as- sume that everyone who comes in here is just as honest as you. That is why you left him standing there with a valuable diamond in his pos- session while you turned your back and put the rest of the tray in the safe. In the minute you were gone, he substituted a phoney diamond and walked right out with the genu- ine diamond." 'So you saw. the whole thing, and let him get away with it! I don't understand .. . "You can come in nOW, Blake!" called McLaughton. "Meet Mr. Blake, of the Depend- able Insurance system," said the smiling McLaughton. "Sorry we had to make you the guinea pig, Buddy," Blake began, as he took a sparkling solitaire out of his pocket and placed it upon the desk. "But 1 just had to convince your boss Isere how essential it is - to have the insurance. "Take a look at that diamond on your desk, Mr. McLaughton," said Langdon calmly, "Why, it's nothing but a phoney," he cried. "Sure," remarked Langdon quietly. "Yon don't suppose I'd leave dia- monds around for strangers to pick up, do you? 1 made the switch be- fore 1 put the tray away in the safe. Now, Mr, McLaughton, do 1 get my raise or don't I?" The earliest balance machine date back to at least 5,000 years before the Christian era. V© CE F THE PRESS Rats For Almost All There are almost as many rats in the United States as there are people —130,000,000, as compared with a human population in the neighbor- hood of 140,000,000. United States Fish and Wild Life Director Albert M. Day says they cause $200,000,000 damage to food alone each year. -Milwaukee Journal. And Often A valve turned by error dumped 800 gallons of whiskey into a Scot- tish creek, and Sandy says he finds it a vurra invecgoratin' stream for takin' a wee bawth in. —Ottawa Citizen. If Then Men are penalized by time in many way, says a contemporary. As an example, it Lakes a human being six years to learn how to talk and sixty yearsto learn how to keep his big mouth shut. —St. Thomas Titncs-Journal. We Almost Hope Still, it won't be long before the mosquitoesare taking screen tests again. —Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph. A Wise Move 1ldexico has taken a long step for- ward in the saving of dwindling forests by requiring lumbermen to plant ten trees for every one cut and by limiting exports of fine woods. Some other countries already are almost too late for such a move: Let tts hope Canada is not in the latter category. —Niagara Falls Review. Best If Self -Taught The British Columbia Minister of Education is. offering $10,000 a year.. to a doctor who will teach people how to drink in moderation. Some- one is overlooking the fact that the best -moderate drinkers are self- taught. —Fort William Times -Journal. FUNNY BUSINESS BY HERSHBERGER ///fir% "�'di,7;>i /EMERGENCY �fr/� ,_i•. sy✓ WARD 4 • \.‘,./ 94-48. Iza, pT "Shock—he figured Iiia income tax correctly!" H French Mayor Sets Good Example—Answering President Auriol's urgent afipeal asking French farmers to deliver 'all, surplus wheat without delay, the mayor of Yermenonville sets a good example to his townspeople as ',his wheat is loaded on a "wheat collection" cart. Rural police, like the one at left, beat drums to call farmers' attention to current grain drive to thwart .a serious bread shortage during the next two months. '• Changed Asked if a year of college made 'any difference in is e1ti son, a deep -South farmer reflectedf. "Well, he's > still a good hand'"with the plow, but 1 notice his language has changed' some. It used to be, 'Whoa, Becky! Haw? and Git up!' "Now when he comes to the end of a row, he says, 'halt, Rebecca! Pivot and proceed!" hna -Will G1Uoy:.Staying Al The:St. Regis �i®tel TORONTO e (]very Room With hath Slower and TeU,ph000 • 'Dn bie,Bpfaonan ® Good' Rood. Dining and'Dane- ing- Nlghtiy ' Sherbnarne tor Carlton Tel, RA. Alas 11003l5 BEAUTIFULLS 'FURNISH OD - $1.50' up HOTEL METROPOLE NIAGARA FALLS OPP. — O.N.O. STATION Lindbergh's Flight Twenty Years Ago One night, approximately 20 years ago, it suddenly became quiet at the Sharkey -Maloney fight in the Yan- kee Stadium. The crowd of 40,000 straw -hatted men and short -skirted women stood up and prayed. The man they were praying for was the same' man about whom the New York Times had 10,000 anxious telephone calls in 11 hours. He was the same man 301000 Frenchmen ..stood waiting -for the next night,near Paris. Finally, among the Frenchmen studying the sky, someone heard a motor. Someone fired rocket flares. And 500 feet up, the glare revealed the frail fuselage of the "Spirit of St. Louis." Very soon, millions of thrilled people, were :repeating the salient. facts of Charles Augustus Lind- bergh's solo flight across the Atlan- tic. He was the first to make it alone and did it in 33 hours, 29 minutes. He won a $25,000 , prize while his rivals waited in New York for better weather. Holds Fame as Pioneer Much has happened in the air since then to obscure the importance of Lindbergh's flight. Today com- mercial airliners regularly make the same trip in 12 hours. But it is doubtful whether any hero since then has captured the imagination of the world by a single act the way the slim, tall "Lone Eagle" did it 20 years ago. Historians agree the sensation Lindbergh made resulted from a combination Of the darin gact itself and the mood of the twenties, a time of many heroes of varying talents and virtue. \ It was a time in the country of a soaring big bull market, jazz, Kim - coon coats, the Charleston and pro- hibition. There were flagpole sitters mara- thon dancers, cross-country walking' races, channel swimmers, the Sacco - Vanzetti executions and college bo- hemians. 11 was the time of the great chain- pions—Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs that year, Gene Turney, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, and Tommy Hitchcock ruled their respective roosts. Took OR in Heavy Mist Charles A, Lindbergh was 25 then, a chief mail pilot and a Captain in the Air Corps Reserve. He entered the competition for the $25,000 trans-Atlantic prize and went nut to a San Diego factory to get his plane, He flew it to St Louis and then to ,Roosevelt Field, Long Island, on May 12. The Goss- country trip was made in 21 hours and 20 minutes, a record for its day. At 7.52, Friday morning, Ilay 20, Lindbergh took off for Paris in a heavy mist. His plane had a wing spread of 45 Teel, a fuselage 2S feet long, and a maximum speed of 123 miles an hour. The lone flier had no tadio and all he took withhint were tivo sand- wiches; two canteens of water, two c socolatc bars, two; flashlights, four red flares, one air raft with pump, five cans of array emergency rati- ons, two air cushions and one hack saw blade. Bulletins Along "Route Up along the Atlantic Coast. he flew in fog and rain and before morning, out over the Atlantic, his ship was coated with sleet. By mid- day Saturday he was'flying over Ire- land, and the bulletins were flashed on movie screens back hone. Then came the Normandy coast and in the darkness he was guided by beacons along the London -Paris air route, the searchlight on the Mt. Valerian fortress and finally by the lights of the Eiffel Tower and the flares at Le Bourget airfield. Then came the receptions: decora- tions and kisses from the ('resident - of France, the shouts of hundreds or thousands in the streets of Paris, Brussels and London, and formal welcomes by the kings of Belgium and England. President Coolidge scut the cruis- er :Memphis to bring the hero and his plane home. Near the Virginia Capes, the. Memphis was joined by four more cruisers, 'six destroyers and a flotilla of planes. The flier and 'his mother rode in triumph through Washington. Then came New Yorlc. Millions lined the streets and hung out windows, toss- ing down more than 1,800 tans 01 confetti, The city spent $ii;(IOU on the reception. Twenty years after his famous fight to Paris, Charles A. Linghergls is living quietly in Connecticut. He serves occasionally as an en- gineering Consultant to several air- craft and airline•firms. The Lindberghs have five child- ren. Golfers to Competo Toronto omni o Inn July Highest award in Carr diam golf, the Seagram Gold Cup has yet to be won by a Canadian. but there is a growing feeling in golfing circles that the symbol of Canadian golf- ing supremacy is just .rout -due to remain in 'Canada instead of tak- ing its annual journey sotitlt of the border. Whether or not the 1947 Cana- dian Opcn, over Toronto's Scarhoro layout Jtily. 16-19, will write a Cana- dian -born champion shin the record remains to be seen — itut certainly Canadian pros have been coming closer each year in the face of keen competition from the top-ranking golfers of the Unitetl States. A nnnthcr of Canadians have won the Dominion's Opcn c' ar,:pl, mhip Since its inauguration in 1904, but none since the Seagram cold Cpp became the official symbol of vic- tory -'in 1936, In fact, no Canadian has won it, for two decade( prior to that—sirree tate days before the Ca- nadian Opcn reached sue lidera sta- ture in. the golfing world to trait top-notch Americans, Bluebe:.•r ies Newfoundland is known for its blueberries :is, well Is itsiinli, nearly 2,800,000 pounds were picked during 1946, over 2,000,000 et Which were sent to the United States. Makos HeroicEffort Tyr Free mullingM®torists NINS DRQ AWARD ORVILLE SWEET OF LADNER, B.C. dives to save trapped men Orville Sweet, asleep in his home near the river, was wakened by violent cries for help. In an instant he was up and, clad only in pants and slippers, rushed to the wharf. A man was clinging desper- ately to the anchor chain of a boat some distance out. With- out hesitation, Sweet dove into the freezing water and pulled the weakened man to safety.. It was then that Sweet learn- ed that the man had escaped from a submerged car and that two others were still trap- ped in it. Down into the inky water he dove . . searching' for the car. At last he found it and began a frantic struggle with the doors . . trying to release the two 'men. Several times he came up for air . and dove to try again. But the strain on his lungs and the icy water were too much. He had to give up. The gallant perseverance of this ma'nwarrants great praise.. He saved one oerson ... and made an almost superhuman effort to rescue rhe other two. We areroud to pay tribute to Or -vile Sweet of .Ladner, B.C., through the presentation of The Dow A ward, THE DOW.AWARD is a citation for outstanding hero. ant and Includes, as a tangible expresi,en of npprenanon, a $Foo Canada Savings Bond. Wmacrs are selected by the Dom Award Cominsttee, a ,group of .editors of leading Canadian daily newspapers. Out aJ control, the car with its three occupants skidded off the Elliot Street wharf into the Fraser River and disap- peared below the surface. One man somehow• escaped and, after being rescued by Orville Sweet, pointed hysterically to the'spot where his Meat were still trapped in their car. POP—Traffic Note I130N11'5'0.14th ro THE Lena OM Rl014Y• G04ohlEf- HIS ofrocr ,xs/ !''`hl Gl IS I1J or- -r:-uisi ioot,,o . :sot i, i9 to emeay.. 1 1) By J. Md--LLAR WATT r\� 'wi ira1'th."tr'"v.awk8^.4:7e4t, 1' •